“At one point in the middle of the night one of the wee buggies used to carry luggage came flying into the basement – and it was pitch dark – and the buggy had its headlights on and we just thought that ‘this is it, they’ve found us’.

“The next thing I saw was this red dot that was moving around the room and thought it was a gun so I put my head down and thought we were going to be shot.

“I was waiting for the shooting to start and the buggy drove away.”

Irene, Jim and the hotel worker eventually made their way back to the surface at around 10am after receiving word that it was now safe on the ground.

“When we went back up the stairs it was as if it never happened,” Irene said. “Folk were on the reception desk and people were just walking around as if the gunfire or screaming hadn’t happened.